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Goa Church, business chamber to help school
dropouts
Monday November 21, 2011 06:57:13 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: The Goa Church
and a business chamber are coming together in a unique initiative
to harness the talent of school and college dropouts.
Speaking to reporters in Panaji Monday, president of the Goa
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Manguirish Pai Raikar said
the state's apex business body and the Church would be employing
dropouts to operate the Microsoft promoted information and
communication technology (ICT) kiosks named 'Saksham', which allow
people from places cut off from urban centres to avail the
benefits of technology.
"We are tying up with schools of the Diocesan Society of Education
to set up the Saksham kiosks. We hope this will help harness the
talents who unfortunately drop out of schools and colleges," Raikar said.
"The Church in Goa plays a very important role in the education
field and more particularly in the technical education field. The
chamber plans to draw a detailed programme in consultation with
various Church-controlled educational institutions and take this
initiative further," Raikar said.
According to National University of Educational Planning and
Administration (NUEPA) statistics, the average dropout rate in Goa
is 13.18 percent, which is higher than the national average of
9.36 percent.
NUEPA figures also show that the transition from primary to upper
primary classes in Goa was 79 percent as compared to the all-India
average of 81.13 percent.
Raikar said the Saksham kiosks, which were launched some years
back, would be facilitated by the GCCI.
Launched in 2006, project Saksham is part of Microsoft's rural
computing initiative in collaboration with Hughes with the
objective of setting up ICT kiosks across rural India.
The Church is a socio-politically well entrenched entity in Goa,
where the Christian population is pegged at nearly 25 percent of
the total 14 lakh.
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